![]() ![]() The cost is $50 per car, but there is no limit on the number of audience members within each car.īack in Story Mill, The Crossing starts in on their second song, “in nature,” the first time the group has done so together, in person. Tickets to both experiences are sold by vehicle. Before their departure, The Crossing will perform Friday, July 30 where attendees will hike along Jack Creek Preserve among the voices of the Crossing, and Saturday, July 31, which takes place in a spacious meadow in Cache Creek. Since then, the relationship between WMPAC and The Crossing has grown into a successful annual program that allows the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based choir to experience southwest Montana, and work alongside the community. “There’s nothing more freeing than working on new art in the mountains,” he said. Zirkle wanted to bring artists working on new projects to find reprieve and inspiration-like many-in the mountains. The residency program with The Crossing began as an idea in 2014 and a reality in 2015. “There’s a simplicity of just being back in a room-that part really does feel like the awakening and the reminder.” “The main thing is being in the room all together, that’s the new feeling,” Zirkle said. It’s an experience that brought many of the choir members to tears during rehearsal. Although the performing arts center worked hard to keep people connected during the pandemic, he says there’s no replacement to being in a room experiencing something with a group of people-without all of the technology issues virtual performances inevitably run into. In addition to “Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet,” The Crossing also performed the first live version of “in nature/I feel,” a project that was forced into a hybrid format last year that included poetic lines of ones reflections as they experience nature’s offerings, as well as “SHIFT,” a new, three-part song that utilized a Black Liberation chant, channeling feelings of strength and catharsis.Ĭatharsis is exactly what WMPAC Executive Director John Zirkle says he felt joining The Crossing as not only a producer and host of their residency program, but also a performer. And it’s so big, it’s made for big things.” “I think they come across as kind of a blank canvas, as opposed to a space that really screams what it is. “We’ve really found that the artists respond so positively to working in sort of, big, industrial spaces,” Ridgway said. Eli Ridgway, Tinworks’ co-director along with Melissa Ragain, says the connection is no accident-that artists often feel drawn to roughened, historic spaces as a theater in which to present their craft. The performance was a part of the group’s weeklong residency program in Big Sky and produced through a unique and new partnership between the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center and Tinworks Art in Bozeman. ![]()
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